8; Appian.Hisp.

4; and Diodorus, xxv.p.

567) the relations of the parties appear dearly enough.

Of the vulgar gossip by which its opponents sought to blacken the "revolutionary combination" (-- etaireia ton ponerotaton anthropon--) specimens may be had in Nepos (Ham.

3), to which it will be difficult perhaps to find a parallel.
2.